Security and backup

Students should also consider how they will keep their projects secure and ensure backups.

Students need to be reminded about the pain of losing work if they don't save it correctly. They should carry a disk or memory stick ... they should also be allowed to save two copies on the computer.

Creating a backup copy ...

1. Save to disk
2. Use auto save tools
3. Set up auto backup
4. Set up passwords to open and edit file

Students should also know about how computers are protected with specialist software, how this is installed and how they operate.

Students are now ready to move onto designing their system ...